Chapter 9. Managing the Application Server

So far, we have covered many Java Enterprise examples and deployed them on the application server. We will now dive headlong into the vast and varied ocean of instruments that are available to manage the application server. The purpose of this chapter is to teach you how to use these instruments to administer and monitor all the resources available on the application server.

Here is the list of topics we will cover in this chapter:

  • An introduction to the WildFly Command-line Interface (CLI)
  • How to create scripts with the CLI
  • How to programmatically manage your server resources using scripting languages and WildFly's client API
  • How to enforce role-based security for administrators

Entering the WildFly CLI

A CLI ...

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